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Jealousy: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Jealousy: Alain Robbe-Grillet

by Richard Howard (Translator), Alain Robbe-Grillet (Author)

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Synopsis

In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principle preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and never acts. He is a point of observation, his personality only to be guessed at, watching every movement of the other characters' actions as they flash like moving pictures across the distorting screen of a jealous mind. The result is one of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Calder Publications
Published: 09 Oct 2017
ISBN 10: 071454454X
ISBN 13: 9780714544540
Book Overview: One of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic.

Media Reviews
Robbe-Grillet is a visual novelist for whom perception is intrinsically fascinating but fraught with uncertainty. The Daily Telegraph Robbe-Grillet's career was built on a sly and amusing paradox: of using fiction over and over again to undo the conventions of fiction. But how cleverly and engagingly he did it. The Independent The finest novel about love since Proust. -- Vladimir Nabokov The novel remains striking in its originality, and Richard Howard's translation from 1959 has held up well. TLS
Author Bio
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the Nouveau Roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.